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Tag: film essay

Revisited: Hound & I: How Growing Up the Daughter of Actor Kevin Corrigan Shaped Me as an Artist and Person

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By Sadie Bones | December 30, 2025
By Sadie Bones | December 30, 2025

Revisited: Hound & I: How Growing Up the Daughter of Actor Kevin Corrigan Shaped Me as an Artist and Person

Sadie Bones, whose debut feature If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing is out now, on the joy of watching movies with her dad.

Revisited: Becoming the Green Door, or How Working in Porn Shaped Me as a Filmmaker

Film
By Scott Cummings | December 30, 2025
By Scott Cummings | December 30, 2025

Revisited: Becoming the Green Door, or How Working in Porn Shaped Me as a Filmmaker

Scott Cummings, whose film Realm of Satan is out now, looks back on his unlikely roots in adult entertainment.

Revisited: My Dad Was One Battle After Another

Film
By Deborah Goodwin | December 29, 2025
By Deborah Goodwin | December 29, 2025

Revisited: My Dad Was One Battle After Another

Filmmaker Deborah Goodwin on the resonant parallels between her own family life and Paul Thomas Anderson's latest movie.

Revisited: Sex and the Movies

Film
By Jane Weinstock | December 25, 2025
By Jane Weinstock | December 25, 2025

Revisited: Sex and the Movies

Writer-director Jane Weinstock, whose new movie Three Birthdays is out now, explores the depiction of sexuality on screen.

Some Holiday Spirit: On Film and Chosen Families

Film
By Haroula Rose | December 23, 2025
By Haroula Rose | December 23, 2025

Some Holiday Spirit: On Film and Chosen Families

Haroula Rose offers up an outtake reel from her new film All Happy Families, and ponders how movies have helped her find her chosen family.

The Mind-Crawling Horror of a Perpetual Christmas

Film
By Julia Marchese | December 23, 2025
By Julia Marchese | December 23, 2025

The Mind-Crawling Horror of a Perpetual Christmas

Filmmaker Julia Marchese on why Terry Gilliam’s dystopian classic Brazil is her favorite holiday movie of all time.

Say Yes, a Lot

Film
By Evan Mathis | December 12, 2025
By Evan Mathis | December 12, 2025

Say Yes, a Lot

Evan Mathis on the unique experience of directing The Hemingway with his friend Patrick Sean O'Brien, who's been battling ALS for 20 years.

How to Bribe a Priest, and All the Illegal Things We Had to Do to Make Our Series

Film
By Walker Kalan | December 11, 2025
By Walker Kalan | December 11, 2025

How to Bribe a Priest, and All the Illegal Things We Had to Do to Make Our Series

Walker Kalan on the lengths he and co-creator/star Camille Trust had to go to while making their indie web series I Need Your Love.

A Life in Movies: From Eat, Drink, Man, Woman to Rosemead

Film
By Marilyn Fu | December 9, 2025
By Marilyn Fu | December 9, 2025

A Life in Movies: From Eat, Drink, Man, Woman to Rosemead

Rosemead screenwriter Marilyn Fu retraces her life in relation to Ang Lee and his work, culminating in her meeting him last month in Taiwan.

A Playground Where Everything and Everyone is Free

Film
By Marie Losier | December 3, 2025
By Marie Losier | December 3, 2025

A Playground Where Everything and Everyone is Free

Documentary director Marie Losier, whose new film Peaches Goes Bananas is out today, on the joyous art she creates away from cinema.

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